Comparison of how the country the explorers passed through 200 years ago compares to the U.S. of today. This book details the journey of the Corps of Discovery with then and now illustrations of points along the route. It also describes the many museums; interpretive centers; and historic sites that can be visited by travelers.
#3227947 in Books Mercer University Press 2000-11-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.02 x .75 x 5.98l; 1.29 #File Name: 0865546932284 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. There is such a thing as valor and honor.By Charles M. LambI've read quiet a lot on Gen Cleburne from various short articles and books; which led me to purchase this book. The one thing that really endears me to this gentleman is not just his ability as a General; but the honor and glory he fought for. NOT his honor but a more pure and virtuous honor from his heart. For I have learned that Gen Patrick Cleburne was a pure warrior because he fought for the love of his people; in their honor.I've learned he fought for them and through reading many sources concerning him; the people loved him long before he was a General or the war ever started. You mite could say it was a love affair between a people and a person who eventually fought their enemies because of their mutual love for each other. Cleburne has said that the people of the South; everywhere he had lived; had treated him more kindly and as a human being than anywhere he had ever been. He felt such a people were honorable and noble; something neither he nor the people he lived among had ever experienced from any other group of people. He fought for them out of love and to me that makes him a pure warrior; for he fought with everything he had within him; with all his heart; and all out of love.If you the reader do not understand this about Gen Cleburne; then you need to read much more about him. This book eludes to many of the things I've stated above; but I have yet to see any author out-rightly say what I have about Gen Cleburne. Yet it is true if one studies the man on his deepest levels. If this doesn't make Gen Patrick Cleburne a hero in your or anyone's eyes; then you are badly misguided.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This book is a really nice description of Patricks' skill as a military officer and ...By MoneyThis book is a really nice description of Patricks' skill as a military officer and an ultimately becoming a brigadier general in the Confederate army in the western campaign. His tactics and exploits are described by his commanders (Bragg; Johnston's; Hardee) and the men he commanded as the leader of the 1st Arkansas (later 15th Arkansas); 5th CSA; 2nd/5th/23rd/24th Tennessee; and others as the war of northern aggression progressed and he fought the invading yankees from southern soil. This is a good book for those who live in AR/MS/TN southern state region who have this truly great civic leader before the war in Helena; Arkansas and Arkansas state militia organizer and later military leader in the CSA army. He shouldnt be forgotten by those in the area and throughout the country for the southern cause of oppression by the yanks which he felt akin to his days in Ireland. In Ireland before coming to America; his family and population were being oppressed by British rule during the potatoe famine having to pay the Brits/Brit crown-government with no way to pay. Very sad; but a gain for the south !2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Unsung Hero -- Patrick Ronayne CleburneBy Annie WinstonHere is a long-overdue appreciation of one of the Confederacy's truly outstanding military strategists--known in his time as The Stonewall of The West--and one of the South's truly original social strategists. Patrick Ronayne Cleburne; an exemplary instance of an immigrant who achieved the highest social stature and the everlasting esteem of his chosen countrymen; likely never dreamed that he would end as a Major General in the Confederate Army. This son of Erin; who received what would become invaluable military training as a Captain in the English army; began his life in the United States in Arkansas; working as an apothecary (his father; Joseph Cleburne; had been a respected physician back in his native County Cork; his mother; Mary Ann Ronayne; was from the landed gentry of the Anglo-Irish). He studied for the law; passed the bar; and opened a law firm in his adopted home town of Helena; Arkansas. And the rest; as they say; is history: Cleburne's value to the Confederate command prompted Robert E. Lee's epithet which serves as the book's title. Most singular among all Southern generals; perhaps because he was not native-born; was his famous proposal to enlist the South's black slaves in the personnel-strapped Confederate Army--and grant them their freedom afterward; thus robbing the North of its primary motivation (despite Abraham Lincoln's assertions to the contrary) in waging war on the South. The manner of Cleburne's death ranks almost a Greek tragedy--or as Southern Gothic tragedy; as; two weeks before his marriage to Susan Tarleton; a true "Southern Belle" of Mobile; Alabama; he was cut down in a senseless; bloodletting; strategically useless frontal assault in Franklin; Tennessee. The authors have done a superb job of researching Cleburne's life; and giving lay readers a good sense of the military strategies that earned Cleburne his place in the hearts of defeated Southerners--and in American history.
